有相無相

Readings

Pinyin: yǒuxiàng wúxiàng

Wade-Giles: yu-hsiang wu-hsiang

Hangul: 유상무상

Korean MC: yusang musang

Korean MR: yusang musang

Katakana: ウソウムソウ

Hepburn: usō musō

having form and no form

• Having appearance (or form) and not having appearance:
  • These two contrasting terms may be used in the literal sense to distinguish whether something has form (lakṣaṇa) or not.
  • The two terms may be the equivalent of 有爲 and 無爲.
  • Form-no-form may be the equivalent of Sanskrit sad-asat or bhava-abhava, which indicates the extreme views of either existence or nonexistence.
  • The terms may indicate the distinction between true existence and provisional existence (實有 and 假有).
  • The two terms may be used as the equivalent of nimitta and animitta, i.e. perception 有相 and non-perception 無相.
  • In the Chan school, schools which are based on philosophical ideas are called 有相, the Chan school Sect alone being 無相.
  • In the Tiantai and the Pure Land teaching, practicing the chanting of a buddha's name 念佛 with the idea that Amitâbha has a distinct body and Pure Land has a geographical location is termed 有相; when, however, one practices chanting with the idea that Pure Land, Amitâbha, and sentient beings are all a reflection of the ultimate reality as embodied in one's own mind, it is called 無相.
  • In the Esoteric Sect, the term 有相 indicates the practice of the three mysteries 三密, whereas 無相 indicates the universality of these practices.
  〔瑜伽論 T 1579.30.302b29〕 [resp. cmuller; source(s): JEBD]

Dictionary References:

Bukkyō jiten (Ui), 62

Iwanami bukkyō jiten, 58

Zengo jiten (Iriya and Koga), 6-P200

Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha), 327a/363

Fo Guang Dictionary, 2437

Ding Fubao, {Digital Version}

Bukkyō daijiten (Oda), 102-3

Copyright © 2010 -- Charles Muller

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